The errors of evolution, ed., with an intr., by H.L. Hastings1885 |
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... mind . Man seems thus to prove his kindred to the Great Creator . The wisest and most learned have hoped to show how the universe was created , leaving all succeeding generations to laugh at their preposterous at- tempts . The Chinese ...
... mind . Man seems thus to prove his kindred to the Great Creator . The wisest and most learned have hoped to show how the universe was created , leaving all succeeding generations to laugh at their preposterous at- tempts . The Chinese ...
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... minds , that , one after another , alighting in the honey , they have never been able to fly again , and have continued to grovel in the enjoyments of such a ma- terialism ; to accept it as a fact , to ... mind THE ERRORS OF EVOLUTION . 19.
... minds , that , one after another , alighting in the honey , they have never been able to fly again , and have continued to grovel in the enjoyments of such a ma- terialism ; to accept it as a fact , to ... mind THE ERRORS OF EVOLUTION . 19.
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Robert Patterson Horace Lorenzo Hastings. is declared to be the origin of the human mind , and all our thoughts are asserted to be merely modes of motion . Thus Herbert Spencer expounds the development theory : " Those modes of the ...
Robert Patterson Horace Lorenzo Hastings. is declared to be the origin of the human mind , and all our thoughts are asserted to be merely modes of motion . Thus Herbert Spencer expounds the development theory : " Those modes of the ...
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... mind . " * This is , you will say , bad enough . It is , however , by no means the ultimate reach of the impiety of ... minds early familiarized with true philosophical astronomy , the heavens declare no other glory than that of ...
... mind . " * This is , you will say , bad enough . It is , however , by no means the ultimate reach of the impiety of ... minds early familiarized with true philosophical astronomy , the heavens declare no other glory than that of ...
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... minds . It seems to endow us with some of the powers of Deity . Nothing challenges our admiration more than energy , force , the power of producing motion . We admire it in the race - horse , in the rushing locomotive , and chiefly in ...
... minds . It seems to endow us with some of the powers of Deity . Nothing challenges our admiration more than energy , force , the power of producing motion . We admire it in the race - horse , in the rushing locomotive , and chiefly in ...
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Page 97 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 175 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Page 96 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 137 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner-stone thereof: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 97 - And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 169 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Page 176 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 153 - It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed.
Page 183 - Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Page 97 - And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it...